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AI Task Force

Members

Communications subgroup
Donna Phillips (chair)
Janet Bastiman (vice chair) (Campaigns Advisory Group)
Altea Lorenzo-Arribas
Simon Asplen-Taylor

Policy and ethics subgroup
Craig Alexander (Teaching Statistics Section)
Daniel Bogiatzis-Gibbons (Data Ethics and Governance Section)
Oscar Tang
Peter Capsalis
Sayma Chowdhury (Real World Data Science)

Evaluation of AI models subgroup
Benjamin Mawdsley
Eugenie Hunsicker
Jamie Fairclough
Omar Rivasplata (Computational Statistics and Machine Learning Section)
Federico Andreis
Francis Osei

Practitioners subgroup
Adam Davison (Data Science & AI Section)
Altea Lorenzo-Arribas
Sayma Chowdhury (Real World Data Science)
William Browne (Data Science & AI Section)
Zoe Welsh (Professional Affairs Committee)
Federico Andreis

The AI Task Force was formed in June 2024 with the aim of strategically planning the RSS’s work on AI, identifying areas where we can impact public discourse and decision-making and coordinating activity across all parts of the RSS that interface with the subject.

The group is chaired by Donna Phillips and has representation from relevant RSS groups.

It remits to:

  • Strategically plan RSS work on AI, in line with the RSS 5-year strategy.
  • Identify issues and opportunities where the RSS might impact public discourse and
  • decision-making around AI.
  • Lead the development of the Society’s AI policy work.
  • Support RSS’s engagement with the media on AI issues.
  • Strengthen relationships with adjacent organisations to increase our impact in this
  • area.
  • Represent and amplify the voice of AI practitioners.
  • Support proposals for grant funding, and the work that results.

Read the group’s full terms of reference.